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The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (signed copy)
by MOWAT, Farley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Grange over Sands, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (signed copy)
MOWAT, Farley
Little, Brown and Company in association with Atlantic-Little, Brown Books, Boston, 1957, SIGNED, 4th Impression, red cloth with ivory linen spine, hardback, red lettering to spine, GD+, chapter headings illustrated from line drawings by Paul Galdone, 238 pp. Boards firm, spine strip tanned, bumps to fore-edge corners, rubs to head and tail of spine, author signature on half-title page (see scan), no annotations, sound square binding, pages clean and bright, light dust staining to top edge of text block, tanning to inner hinges and edges of end papers. Lovely tidy copy. NATURE WRITING, FARLEY MOWAT, GROWING UP ON THE CANADIAN PRARIES, BOY MEETS DOG STORY, ADVENTURES IN THE WILDERNESS 46202 NATURE WRITING £76.50
Synopsis
Farley Mowat was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1921. He served in the Second World War from 1940 until 1945, and began writing for his living in 1949 after spending two years in the Arctic. Since 1949 he has lived in or visited almost every part of Canada and many other lands, including the distant regions of Siberia. He is the bestselling author of forty-seven books, which have been published in more than twenty languages in more than sixty countries.
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- Bookseller
- Daisyroots Books Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46202
- Title
- The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (signed copy)
- Author
- MOWAT, Farley
- Illustrator
- Paul Galdone
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company in association with Atlantic-Little, Brown Books
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1957
- Pages
- 238 pp
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NATURE WRITING, FARLEY MOWAT, GROWING UP ON THE CANADIAN PRARIES, BOY MEETS DOG STORY, ADVENTURES IN THE WILDERNESS
- Bookseller catalogs
- NAT HIST countryside;
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Daisyroots Books Ltd
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Grange over Sands, Cumbria
About Daisyroots Books Ltd
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